Second Quotes

6250 Second quotes by 3939 unique authors

I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so… — Diane Ackerman
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second… — Robin Morgan
It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I'm just not used to it. The last time I… — Socrates
You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second… — Frank Sinatra
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. — Twyla Tharp
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was… — Plutarch
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a… — Plutarch
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist. — Anton Chekhov
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the… — Paul Gauguin
You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how… — Claude Monet
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man.… — Pablo Casals
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. — Jean Racine
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos — Douglas Coupland
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr
One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this… — Judith Perelman Rossner
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake

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